Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

Integrative and proactive conservation approaches are critical to the long-term persistence
of biodiversity. Molecular data can provide important information on evolutionary processes …

As big data, open data, and open science advance to increase access to complex and large
datasets for innovation, discovery, and decision-making, Indigenous Peoples' rights to …

Genomic data are being produced and archived at a prodigious rate, and current studies
could become historical baselines for future global genetic diversity analyses and …

A genomic database of all Earth's eukaryotic species could contribute to many scientific
discoveries; however, only a tiny fraction of species have genomic information available. In …

Metazoan metabarcoding is emerging as an essential strategy for inventorying biodiversity,
with diverse projects currently generating massive quantities of community-level data. The …

Genetic diversity within species represents a fundamental yet underappreciated level of
biodiversity. Because genetic diversity can indicate species resilience to changing climate …

A recent Molecular Ecology editorial made a proactive statement of support for the “Nagoya
Protocol” and the principle of benefit‐sharing by requiring authors to provide a “Data …

Molecular methods are currently some of the best-suited technologies for implementation in
insect monitoring. However, the field is developing rapidly and lacks agreement on …

DNA barcoding is critical to conservation and biodiversity research, yet public reference
databases are incomplete. Existing barcode databases are biased toward cytochrome …